Differences between Republicans and Democrats

 I saw an ad with a Democrat and a Republican talking about common ground. The Republican indicated that they disagree about a lot of things but can still work together. I admit that I have some Republican friends who aren't too regressed to deal with. But the differences between many Democrats and Republicans and, more to the point, progressives and regressives are very big. It can be quite dangerous to prioritize commonality over differences when many on the Republican side demonize differences and want people who are different from them to disappear. Further, many Republicans want to regress society to when religion ruled, LGBTQYA+ hid or were incarcerated, education was restricted and nonbelievers were forbidden. As a queer nonbeliever, I would be killed by some of them if they could get away with it.

I had a visit by Jehovah's Witnesses

 Two Jehovah's Witnesses came to my apartment. They were willing to talk even after I disclosed that I was a nonbeliever. And I was willing because I was curious about their approach. After I disclosed that I was a nonbeliever, they went into how their god created everything. They asked about my beliefs about how things came to be. I explained that my approach is to start with the physical for explanations. From that starting point, it looks to me to be all natural processes. They shifted to talk about how their god will come to cleanse the earth. They said that there is no human means to make things better so their god has to cleanse the earth. I indicated that their approach excludes humans from even trying since it can be left up to their god to fix things.